Re: pentest tool for dos

[David Glosser <david.glosser () gmail com>]

Check these two out...

Slowloris - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris
HOIC - http://hoic.99k.org

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:40 PM, ShiYih Lye <shiyih.lye () my offgamers com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> We are testing the dos protection mechanism of our web server, and
> we're using 'apache benchmark', ab for that purpose (httpd version is
> 2.2.3 in Centos 5) from the pentest machine. But it is not able to go
> to a higher concurrent hits, so I'm wonder do you have any better or
> more comprehensive tools out there that you think is better ?
>
> Thanks for any input given.
>
> Regards,
> Lye
>
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